Mavric

That's what Boise St. needs - to join another conference.

We have a men's club, and have had for years. With Men's ball being such a west-coast dominated sport, I don't know that it would be easy to get going here. Ohio State and Penn State both have men's teams, but I don't know about the rest of the Big Ten. The men's game is very different than women's volleyball. In women's ball, there are far more rallies and the action is much more fan-friendly. The men's game is serve-pass-set-HUGE KILL. Lather, rinse, repeat. It's rare that you get good, crowd-pleasing rallies going in the men's game, so to be a fan you'd have to really enjoy watching kills slammed into the floor over and over and over and over. This is why women's volleyball is on TV much more during the Olympics, both in sand and court. Men's volleyball is kinda boring. I thought womens volleyball is on tv alot as people like to see hot women in spandex and bikinis lol This talking point reminds me of a call into sports nightly one night during John Cook's radio hour. I think it was last season, not this past. But this obviously old woman calls in and is obviously distraught over the girls wearing the short tight shorts and the the tighter shirts. She just thinks it's incredible distasteful and "suggestive". That was the exact word she used. John Cook tried to explain to her that that's the required uniform so that limbs and muscles dont get caught up in loose clothing and such and cause injuries. The old gal was having none of it, and just went on a tangent about what we're teachin young ladies and such. It was hilarious, and me and my wife laughed the whole time. I was then targeted as to why do I really watch volleyball games. All I could say was "I listen to them on the radio too, what's your point?" If I can find an archived podcast, I will link it. Kick SAAAAVE and a beauty. My only question about Cook's defense is why isn't the same true for basketball? Not that I'm arguing, mind you.

I always like useless trivia. Even if it is ... well ... useless. Interesting none the less. Humble suggestion: Could you put the dates that nominations/voting are open at the top of each thread? I know there in here but that requires effort on my part. Let's me know how much time I have until I have to flip a coin.

My thoughts exactly. The reactions of the officials and the broadcasters would be noticeably different.

The only problem with that premise is that he cannot win a conference championship alone. He needs his defense to show up. We've been a member of conferences with championship games for 15 years and we've played in the conference championship five times (33%, which isn't bad when you think about it). This year we scored, by far, the most points we've scored in any CCG, and yet we got beat by the largest margin of any CCG loss. To wit: Year - CONF - VS - NU - OPP - RES - MARGIN 1999 - Big XII - Texas - 22 - 6 - W - 16 2006 - Big XII - Oklahoma - 7 - 21 - L - (14) 2009 - Big XII - Texas - 12 - 13 - L - (1) 2010 - Big XII - Oklahoma - 20 - 23 - L - (3) 2012 - Big Ten - Wisconsin - 31 - 70 - L - (39) The two incongruities there are the number of points scored by both teams in 2012. We scored more than enough under Martinez to win this conference championship. Instead, we end up with the largest margin of defeat in any CCG. That has nothing to do with Martinez. Come on. Everyone knows that Trent Dilfer was a much better QB than Dan Marino. Just look at how many Super Bowls they won. Just in case -

Entirely possible. But Michigan's four games before us were Eastern Michigan, Central Michigan, Northwestern & Iowa - not exactly rivalry games - and they averaged about 92 points against them. 62 against us then 53 against a Top 15 team. I'll give our guys at least a little credit.

I figured this issue was now dead but apparently they could still be looking at it: Full Article

A little disappointed that you didn't post the HD version of the first clip. Pretty crazy how similar they are but I'm pretty sure the more recent one gets my vote.

Well, lost his job at guard and isn't a starter at tackle so I'm pretty sure there are people who are better. We rotate our line more than about anyone in the country which I'm generally in favor of but if he can't get it done either give someone else a chance or stick with your starters. I think it's pretty obvious that I meant he was better than the alternatives to play backup tackle, not that he was our best lineman. Also,I think we do a pretty good job with our line rotation. We basically played a seven man rotation on the line this year, with pensick and Rodriguez spelling the starters. Not sure why you think that would lead the nation. We typically had about the same numbers rotating in the glory years. It helps to keep your guys fresh and wear down the opponent, particularly when running an up tempo offense like ours. I think a good point was made above that arod plays better as a sub, where his conditioning doesn't come into play as much. Hopefully he can get in better shape to play the third tackle again next year, or perhaps one of the well regarded youngsters will be ready by then (sterup or price). I also thought I did a pretty good job of stating that I'm fine with the rotation idea but if you've got a guy he can't get it done, try something different. Do you have any examples of another team that rotates their offensive lineman as much as we do? Admittedly I don't pay very close attention to other teams lines but I watch quite a bit of football and haven't noticed anyone rotating in very much, let alone flipping their tackles from one side to the other.

They end the game on an 11-2 run to make it look worse than it was. Good effort by the 'Skers.

Classy move by Izzo to try to quiet the boos for NU calling a late timeout.

Yes, but not outworked.

And we're going to let it slip away. No shame in this effort. Hopefully we can keep it up against some lesser opponents.

Shot to take the lead ... missed ... they bury a three. Ouch.

WHAT A PLAY!!!! (Yes, all caps!)

5-18 from three now. We're due for one ... right?

Get a bucket - just to make it interesting.

That three would have been nice...

Tough fifth foul on the big guy. That could finish us - not much left in the paint.

not a DE Pretty sure he meant he was a two-star DE coming out of high school. Mav is right. Jake will help us next year a ton. Not that I want to defend Hedley but...

My thoughts exactly.

Well, lost his job at guard and isn't a starter at tackle so I'm pretty sure there are people who are better. We rotate our line more than about anyone in the country which I'm generally in favor of but if he can't get it done either give someone else a chance or stick with your starters.

not a DE Pretty sure he meant he was a two-star DE coming out of high school.

I know Reeves hadn't been coming along as quickly as the staff thought he would. Sterup might just have been behind some upper-classmen. I really don't know why ARod keeps getting out there. I really haven't seen him play a good quarter - let alone an entire game - at either spot. Maybe he looks better in practice (against our DLine ) but I continue to be confused by the playing time he gets.